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Mujib's supporters insist that he has shown a capacity for growth. He was born 51 years ago, one of six children of a middle-class family that lived on a farm in Tongipara, a village about 60 miles southwest of Dacca. At ten, Mujib displayed the first signs of a social conscience by distributing rice from the family supplies to tenant farmers who helped work the property. "They were hungry, and we have all these things," the boy explained to his irate father, an official of the local district court...
Gray-haired, stocky and tall for a Bengali (6 ft.), the bespectacled Mujib always wears a loose white shirt with a black, sleeveless, vestlike jacket. A moody man, he tends to scold Bengalis like so many children. He was born in the East Bengal village of Tongipara 51 years ago to a middle-class landowner (his landlord status accounts for the title of sheik). Mujib studied liberal arts at Calcutta's Islamia College and law at Dacca University. He lives with his wife Fazil-itunessa, three sons and two daughters in a modest two-story house in Dacca...
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